A serious curiosity derived from something I’ve noticed more and more often lately:
What the hell has happened to nuanced thought? It seems every day- more and more, it’s either this or that, with us or against us, black or white. What happened to the complexity of thought? Why have we come to be so polarized about every single thing that exists? And it seems it doesn’t matter the subject! The moment a topic is brought up. Sides are immediately taken in the War of Being Right.
It used to be that we considered things. We were rational. Logical. Contemplative.
Now? Everyone seems so quick to arrive at hastily constructed arguments that have to be either for or against- where no argument was necessary or even called for to being with!
It seems to me, that we need to relearn what was once so easily understood, and it’s that life exists between the boundaries of one and the other.
Platonic 1s and 0s are easier to process (even a computer can do it!) than the nebulous but realistic middle grounds. People are just dumb in general but now, with the decline of the West (I assume you’re on mostly Western sites and not VK or Nairaland, for instance), they’re also scared/emotionally compromised which clouds their judgment, so I guess this makes sense.
Fair point.